That game was against Louisiana Tech, and it was postponed until October due to Hurricane Isaac. But, rather than hold the pair out for Saturday’s game against Florida, Sumlin took the unusual, and dare we say convenient, approach of allowing them to play and declaring they would still out of the lineup when that October game eventually gets here.

“Neither guy was involved in our preparation for Louisiana Tech and that will remain the situation,” Sumlin said last week, according to AL.com. “A lot of things have changed since the storm and they will still be suspended for the Louisiana Tech game. That won’t change.”